AI controlled units

[Aurelious]

will this ballancing of gaunts/grenades also come into play regarding the ranking of the opposing team?

like very well experienced tyranid players going up against newer marine players and the marines having access to a bit more equipment?

[Typheron]

ignore all metion of guants/grenade balance. It has been dropped in favour of a more simple system as we have learned quite a bit from our alpha tests in how things work.

Equipment is gained by earning it for both teams at the moment.

[ChromeAngel]

In order to keep things relatively simple the balancing will only use the number of players, rather than trying to rank them.  In the first version at least.  We could always add in a level of player ranking later if necessary.

Typheron is right in saying that in general upgrades have to be earned, however these particular ones have not been added to the alpha builds yet, which might be causing some confusion.  This feature is actually one of the last items on the development plan because it rely on much of the other parts being done first.